BREAKING: Ministers Resign Over Corruption

BREAKING: Ministers Resign Over Corruption

A fundraising scandal involving the most influential group of the ruling party in Japan resulted in the resignation of four cabinet officials on Thursday.

Over a five-year period leading up to 2022, more than 500 million yen (£2.8 million; $3.4 million) was believed to have ended up in slush funds.

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a day before the resignations, pledged to address the massive accusations of $500 million in bribes within the division-plagued Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed the third-largest economy in the world for nearly three decades.

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Prosecutors were also planning to start conducting office raids and interviewing numerous legislators.

Ministers of Economy and Industry, Yasutoshi Nishimura, Internal Affairs, Junji Suzuki, and Agriculture, Ichiro Miyashita, tendered their resignations, as verified by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno. The prime minister’s special advisor, Michiko Ueno, is also stepping down, along with five other deputy Japanese ministers, the chief government spokesman, Matsuno, told reporters.

“The public is becoming less trusting of the government as a result of their misgivings about political funding. I felt I wanted to make things right while the investigation was ongoing,” Nishimura told reporters.

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Kishida said, “I will lead the LDP and make efforts like a ball of fire to restore the public’s trust.”